opment, in comparison with co-operation and social ac- 

 tion." Wliat, indeed, but a surrender of the paramountcy 

 of struggle for life, is Huxley's celebrated Romanes lec- 

 ture in which he supplants the cosmic process by the eth- 

 ical? The French free-thinker, Charles Robin, gave ex- 

 pression to the verdict of exact science when he declared: 

 "Darwinism is a fiction, a poetical accumulation of proba- 

 bilities without proof, and of attractive explanations with- 

 out demonstration." 



2. The hopeless inadequacy of the struggle for life to 

 account for adaptive structures has been dealt with at con- 

 siderable length by Professor Morgan in the concluding 

 chapters of the work already mentioned. We cannot here 

 follow him in his study of the various kinds of adaptations, 

 e. g., form and symmetry, mutual adaptation of colonial 

 forms, protective coloration, organs of extreme perfection, 

 tropisms and instincts, etc., in regard to the origin of each 

 of which he is forced to abandon the Darwinian theory. 

 It will suffice to call attention to his conclusions concerning 

 the phenomena of regeneration of organs. By his re- 

 search in this special field Professor Morgan has won inter- 

 national recognition among men of science. It was while 

 prosecuting .his studies in this field that he became im- 

 pressed with the utter bankruptcy of the theory of natural 

 selection which Darwinians put forward to explain the ac- 

 quisition by organisms of this most useful power of regen- 

 eration. "It is not difficult to show that regeneration could 

 not in many cases, and presumably in none, have been ac- 

 quired through natural selection (p. 379). If an earth worm 



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